Here are our six favorites — presented with fingers crossed that SAG members, the Academy, and
other awards voters agree!
Not exact matches
Hathaway will win many
awards for this performance, if for no
other reason than the image of her giant mouth will imprint itself indelibly on millions of brains, some belonging to Oscar
voters.
On the
other hand, if
voters don't feel like exporting the
award, «The Fighter» «s well - liked, well - known assembly of stars and character actors would make for popular winners in the category.
How many
voters in his corner could seriously argue their vote as anything
other than an
award for career achievement over the quality of his specific performance in Darkest Hour?
I have no doubt that there were several # 1 votes by Academy
voters during the nomination process, but so many
other movies were more beloved that year that, as a seasoned
awards watcher, to complain about The Passion not being nominated is pretty ridiculous.
For 1967, Oscar
voters ultimately
awarded best picture to «In the Heat of the Night,» not because it was better than the
other nominees, but because it offered hope.
Moonlight was indeed the
voter's choice, but as La La Land stormed through
other awards — the pair were given the wrong card, and Dunaway went guns - blazin» and cocked it all up.
They are formulated using a combination of personal impressions (from advance screenings), publicly available information (release dates, genres, talent rosters and teasers / trailers often offer valuable clues), historical considerations (how
other films with similar pedigrees have resonated), precursor
awards (some groups have historically correlated with the Academy more than
others) and consultations with industry insiders (including fellow members of the press,
awards strategists, filmmakers and
voters).
And yet, I realized, as a new voting member of the Online Film Critics Society, that every
awards voter and every writer compelled to produce a Best of 2011 list is doing just that, comparing different creations against each
other and ranking accordingly.
He's well known for his stage portrayals of larger - than - life characters — including Dracula and Sherlock Holmes, among
others — but his perfectly modulated performance here is one of managed disappointment, something apparently too subtle for Academy
Award voters to recognize.
Some say the group is out of touch,
others say
voters aren't educated enough in the arenas they choose to
award.
It's because the
voters knew that «Michael Clayton» was going to be shut out in every
other category, so they threw Swinton a bone just so the movie walked away with at least one
award.
Harvey Weinstein has never been one to put much faith in the length of Academy
voters» memories, so as usual, he's favoring a late - year release plan for his presumed
awards contenders — the prospects of which I was discussing only the
other day.
Most
voters will pay attention to the technical accomplishments but will turn their focus to
other fare that isn't destined to sweep the MTV Movie
Awards.
As a
voter in the
awards and talking with
other journalists at the event, it was clear Nissan's efforts to get the Titan to the event and the truck itself both factored into the voting.
(Some of them I received as a Hugo
Award voter, along with a passel of novels and stories in PDF as well;
others came from Marvel's DVD - ROM collection of Uncanny X-Men issues.)